Zhemal Khamidun
Head of AI at Alpina Digital, CPO of AlpinaGPT (~30-person engineering & AI team). Founder of Vibe Academy & Hamidun Consulting, author of the AI channel «Готовим ИИшницу» (@jemal_hamidun).
StarGuard AI: Why Enterprise LLMs Need a Firewall, and How Orion Soft Is Building One
Orion Soft is developing StarGuard AI, a security gateway for large language models: a single control point for every request to on-premise and cloud LLMs in the…
Alibaba's Amap Updates ABot: Five Robotics Models and SOTA on 17 Benchmarks
Amap, Alibaba's mapping service, has rolled out a full overhaul of its ABot embodied-AI system with five new models, claiming first place on 17 leading robotics…
AppLovin Bets on Velocity as AI Looks for Revenue Beyond Subscriptions
Ad platform AppLovin has backed startup Velocity, a sign that generative AI is seeking revenue sources beyond subscriptions, from advertising to pay-per-use pricing.
Medtronic launches Touch Surgery AI platform for the operating room and digital surgery
White House Commits $5 Billion to AI in Science: The Energy Department's Genesis Mission
Google Quantum AI: Reinforcement Learning Triples Stability of the Willow Quantum Chip
GitHub Copilot vs. Direct API Access: What You Actually Pay For
Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Book Authors: Record Settlement and a Win for AI Labs
Anthropic will pay authors $1.5 billion for downloading nearly 482,000 pirated books. It is paying for the piracy, not for training AI, which the court ruled fair…
Anthropic Hits $47 Billion Run Rate — Menlo Ventures: No Growth Like This in 25 Years
Anthropic reached an annual run rate of $47 billion by May 2026, up from $9 billion in 2025. Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy says he has never seen growth like…
OpenAI's AI Infrastructure Spending Hits $750 Billion — Equal to Sweden's GDP
China's Open AI Models vs. OpenAI and Anthropic: What DeepSeek and Qwen Are Offering
Monday.com Lays Off 630 People, 20% of Staff, to Focus on Its AI Platform
Arcee: Chinese AI Models Aren't Inherently Dangerous, Says US Open-Source Lab
OpenAI Adds Nubank and BNY Chiefs to Its Boards Amid IPO Preparations
OpenAI has added Nubank founder David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its nonprofit and for-profit boards, a move analysts link to IPO preparations.
SaaS or Services-as-Software: Why AI Is a Tailwind for Software, Not an Apocalypse
ZDNet argues the AI-driven "SaaS apocalypse" is overblown and explains how software companies can adapt to Services-as-Software, where agents do the whole job.